The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Boston, Massachusetts · Boston · Massachusetts
- Level
- City
- Authority
- Municipal permitting authority; BPHC emergency
- Issued
- 2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-25 (pause in effect since Mar. 17; sites locked down by Mar. 23) (read as 2020-03-25)
- End
- Phased restart May 5, May 18 and May 26, 2020 (verified_secondary) (read as 2020-05-26)
- In force
- Mar. 25, 2020 to May 26, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all City of Boston permitted construction sites
- Functions reached
- JS job sites
- SB trades
- OW owners
- SC materials
- Collection
- Boston MET-BOS
Operative words
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced he is affirmatively extending the City of Boston's order to pause non-essential construction for City of Boston permitted sites. Mayor Walsh first announced this order on March 16, 2020, and sites should have been locked down for safety by March 23. Due to the public health emergency in Boston and across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this pause is still in effect until further notice.... In addition to these construction projects, the City will, on a case-by-case basis, review requests for exemptions to the temporary construction moratorium.
Enforcement
Exemptions only by the Commissioner of Inspectional Services or Commissioner of Public Works
Notes
Boston's pause continued although the Governor's Order No. 13 (Mar. 23, 2020) treated construction as essential; the Governor's counsel affirmed local authority (see Ex. 122).
Retrieval noteCity's own release; the underlying policy document is Ex. 004.